tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post1741345066619486649..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: The beginnings of black slaveryPeter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-35731540319089408452008-07-01T13:23:00.000-04:002008-07-01T13:23:00.000-04:00Describing Mohamed a writer of the early islamic e...Describing Mohamed a writer of the early islamic era thought it necessary to say<BR/> "He was a white man".<BR/>I wondered at this, till now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-73472398371605749322008-01-27T11:24:00.000-05:002008-01-27T11:24:00.000-05:00In the Middle East, Black slaves were probably mor...In the Middle East, Black slaves were probably more numerous during the Islamic era than during the early Christian era. My argument is that they began to increase in number sometime before 0 AD and that this increase continued through the first few centuries and into the Islamic era. Current historiography tends to assume that black slavery suddenly became important with the arrival of Islam.<BR/><BR/>We don't hear of black slave rebellions in earlier periods partly because they were less common but also because the historical record is less complete. Almost everything we know about the beginnings of black slavery comes from Christian and Jewish religious writings. Those witnesses have survived to the present day because they were lucky enough to have a living tradition to pass them on. <BR/><BR/>I'm sure that many pagans wrote about the black slaves in their midst, but those writings have long since perished.<BR/><BR/>P.S. Since I am not writing specifically for Catholics or Orthodox Christians, I use the honorific 'Saint' for anyone who was considered to be such by his contemporaries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-432739153559813192008-01-25T22:34:00.000-05:002008-01-25T22:34:00.000-05:00Okay, I finished your post.I would say that what t...Okay, I finished your post.<BR/><BR/>I would say that what the Arabs brought to African slavery was its <I>industrialisation</I>. The Iraqi Arabs literally imported a slave caste.<BR/><BR/>Even by your account, Europeans up to 640 AD didn't import demographically significant proportions of blacks. Iraqis in the Zanj, on the other hand, did. We don't hear of <I>black</I> slave rebellions in the Mediterranean prior to 640 AD (Spartacus was of course a Thracian). We do hear of the Zanj revolt under the 'Abbasids.Darayvushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17973750966981889517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-45861209847839646872008-01-25T22:26:00.000-05:002008-01-25T22:26:00.000-05:00In which church is Origen a saint? He's no saint t...In which church is Origen a saint? He's no saint to the Catholics or Greek Orthodox...Darayvushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17973750966981889517noreply@blogger.com